HC Deb 13 June 1968 vol 766 c64W
Mr. Tilney

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs whether he will instruct the British Permanent Representative in the United Nations to move an emergency resolution in the Security Council calling on all member states to cease supplying arms to either side in the Nigerian civil war while peace talks continue in Kampala or elsewhere.

Mr. Whitlock

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary explained the attitude of Her Majesty's Government towards the supply of arms to Nigeria in his speech to the House yesterday. [HANSARD Col. 289–299]. For the reasons given in that speech, I do not propose to ask my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary to initiate the action proposed.